Press



(no Model.) E. J. BROOKS.

SEALING PRESS.

Patented Mar.- 7, 1882.

INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. A

EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO E. J. BROOKS &; 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEALING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,601, dated March '7, 1882.

Application filed October 31, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sealing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for sealing and labeling railway freight-cars.

In lieu of or in addition to a small tag combined with or attached by the seal which secures the car-door-as shown and described, for example, in my drawings and specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,722, dated June 13, 1876, No. 209,008, dated October 15,1878, No. 235,668, dated December 21,1880, or No. 236,539, dated January 11, 188l--the officers of most roads prefer to use a relativelylarge labeling-card, indicating by conspicuous characters the contents of the car, the point where it was loaded, its destination, the date on which it was sealed or shipped, 850., said card being attached to the door or side of the car by means of tacks; and heretofore the man who seals the cars has had to carry two distinct toolsnamely,a sealing-press and ahammerin order to press the seals and attach the cards.

The object of the present invention is to adapt one tool to do thewhole of this work, so as to save the trouble, time, and labor involved in finding, using, and carrying about a second tool, as well as the cost of the latter, or a considerable part thereof; and this invention consists in a sealing-press with a hammer attachment, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of a sealing-press with hammer attachmentand of a portion of the side of a sealed and labeled freight-car, showing the former as used in hammering on the labelingcard. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the sealingpress on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same, partly in longitudinal section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a small side elevation of the press with dies separated, as in the act of receiving a seal to be pressed.

A, Fig. 1, represents the side of the car; B, the'car-door; O, the labeling-card; and D, the pressed seal, the latter in the example being 50 formedfrom one of mylead-and-tin seal-blanks patented August 23, 1881, as described in my specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,068, with the disk alone pressed, as shown at Fig. 22 in my drawings forming part ofLetters PatentNo. 178,722, before mentioned. 5 5

The illustrative sealingpress (shown in perspeotive in Fig. 1 and in detail in Figs. 2, 4) is adapted, for example, to press lead-and-tin seals of the aforesaid description.

In practice presses for all the various forms of seals in use which require pressing or punching in attaching them may be constructed according to this invention, and I propose so applying it; but for clearness the succeeding description will be confined to the press shown.

This sealing-pressis composed of two malleable-iron castings, E F, a pair of steel dies, G H, and a steel spring, I, with a steel pivot-pin,

p, and screws 8 s for uniting and securing the parts, the hammer attachment It being formed on the main part E, so as to be integral therewith and most advantageously located. Said main part E forms at its larger and heavier end, on which the hammer attachment h is formed, what is termed the head of the press, which is cored and drilled to receive, first, the bed-die G, with, its clamping-screw, then the upper die, H, and spring I, introduced together with the screw which attaches the latter between the cheeks of the head, and, finally, the other main part, F, with the pivot-pin 19, an open mouth of ample size being formed in said head between a pair of rigid jaws to receive the seal-disk preliminary to pressingit, as illustrated by Fig. 4, and to freely disengage the pressed seal. The corresponding end of said partFis constructed with parallel sides, a drillholeperpendicular thereto to receive the pivotpin 1), and an eccentric projection or cam, c, on

its lower edge, to coact with the upper end of the sliding die H for depressing the latter to compress and stamp the seal-disk, said die H being of the common cylindrical form, with a horizontal socket to receive the free end of the spring I, which operates as a lifting-spring, 5 tending to hold the part F and die H in elevated position, as shown in Fig. 4, the lower end of said die H being lettered and provided with a central sharp-pointed punch to puncture and interlock the sealing-disk and sheet-metal strip of the seal D in the act of compressing and stamping the former upon the bed-die G, while this die Gris simply supported solidly in line with said die H and constructed with a central depression matching said punch to receive the punch end and a portion of the soft metal displaced thereby at the pressing operation.

The hammer attachment h is formed in line with the dies G H in the form of the face end of a hammer-head,and serves to accommodate the lower end of the, socket drilled to receive said dies while it is thus located on the solid edge of the press at its heavy end in line with the greatest thickness of metal, and it may be 7 with the latter practically solid in line there with, the dies being adapted to come in con tact with each other when there is no seal in the press, if so preferred.

The handle ends of the parts E F are constructed with reference to being grasped together in the right hand, as shown in Fig. 1, in carrying the tool and in using it to drive the tacks or small nails used to attach the card 0, as illustrated in said figure. After it 25 has been so used the lower handle is simply released by the fingers to bring the press to the condition illustrated by Fig. 4 preparatory to pressing the seal D.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Leto ters Patent- In a sealing-press composed principally of two main parts, E F, havinglever-handles integral therewith, and a head on one of said parts containing a pair of seal-dies substan- 35 tially at right angles to said handles, the combina-tion, with said head, of a hammer attachment, it, formed on the lower edge of said head in line with said dies, substantially as herein specified, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\ EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

HALCYON Grow,

A. B. SMITH. 

